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EDWARD J. POPE AND CHARLES E. POPE, OF EAU CLAIRE, VVISCCNSIN.

PAPER-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,608, dated September 24, 1889.

Application filed September 3, 1888. Serial No. 284,413. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EDWARD J. POPE and CHARLES E. POPE, of Eau Claire, in the county of Eau Claire, and in the State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Reels; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

ourinvciition relates to reels for takin the paper from the calender-rolls in paper-mills, and will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings,'Figure 1 is an elevation of one side of our improved reel-frame. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the opposite side. .Fi g. 3 is a plan view. Fig. 4 is a detail section; Fig. 5, a longitudinal section of one of the paperreels, and Fig. 6 a detail cross-section of the same. Figs. '7, 8, and 9 show modifications.

A is the base of our machine, and B is the reel-frame, the shaft B of which has bearings at a a on the stand. The arms C C of the reel-frame carry the reels or rollers 1D, the shafts I) of which have suitable bearings in the ends of said arms.

E is acog-whcel that is secured at one end of the reel-frame, and this is driven by a pinion 0 on the shaft (Z by the hand-wheel or crank e, to turn the wheel after each reelhas received its complement of paper.

Shaft 7L carries pulley 7', which latter is connected by a belt K with suitable drivi ng-p ower. A sprocket-wheel F is fastened on the inner end of shaft 7t, and this wheel carries an endless chain h which stands in position to receive each of the pinions G, that are fixed each to an end of one of the reels D, as-it is presented to it from below and comes into engagement with pinion G just as the latter comes out of an arm B projects out from the adjacent bearing of each reel in the path of this dog, so that when the empty reel begins to turn in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1 the dog will be struck by the arm and the teeth will be forced through the paper and over in position to clamp it down on the reel.

The operation of our device is as follows: lVhile a reel is being filled the parts. are in position, as shown in Fig. 2. When a reel has been filled and it is necessary to put an empty one in place of the one filled, the reelframe is turned by means of the crank or hand-wheel e, and the pinion of the filled reel is lifted out of engagement with pinion N and into engagement with endless chain 7L2. The reel now gets its motion from the chain 72, and continues to revolve as it is lifted by the revolution of the reel-frame until the empty reel on the next lower arm C comes up to the paper between the last-filled reel and a depressing-roll T. The arm B now strikes the dog as the empty reel commences to revolve and throws the teeth over, through, and onto the paper, thus cutting and clamping it as the reel revolves, and thus a filled reel is replaced by an empty one without any cessation in the winding of the paper, and no paper is lost by the change from one reel to the other.

The upper loop of belt 7&2 passes over a smooth pulley h the shaft of which has its bearing on a standard L, that projects up from the standard A, and this belt has slack enough to allow of its yielding to permit the pinions G of the reels D to describe their circle in the revolution of the reel-frame.

In Figs. 7, S, and 9 is shown a modification of ourinvcntion, wherein for chain ]L2 is substituted a pinion M, the shaft M of which is jonrnaled in one end of an arm M the outer end of which is fitted loosely on the shaft B of the reel-frame. The outer end of shaft M is also carried by an end of an arm M, the other end of which arm is loosely fitted on a short shaft E, one end of which is stepped in an end of shaft B, while its other has its bearing in a stand H. The shaft M also carries a pinion M3, and this pinion is connected by an intermediate gear-wheel H with a pinion E" on shaft E, which shaft carries a pulley E that is connected by a belt E with a driving-power. A sliding catch m is fitted in arm M and this catch is held over the path of the reel-frame arms when the arm ll 2 is in a nearly horizontal position by an inclined arm n, that projects up from the stand A, which arm wedges against the inclined head of the catch an, and when the arm M is being lifted by one of the arms of the reel-frame the friction between the catch and reel-frame arm serves to hold the catch over the said reel-frame arm against the tension of a spring 19, that is fixed at one end to the arm M while its other engages the catch-head with a tendency to draw outwardly on the catch; but after the arm M has been raised to an angle of about forty-five degrees the weight of it becomes insufficient to overcome the tension of the spring, and therefore the catch is withdrawn by the spring and the arm M drops to the support I, in position to bring the pinion Min position to mesh with the next filled reel that rises, so that each newly-filled reel is turned until the succeeding empty one gets in position for work.

In the modification just described the pinion F is removed from its shaft 7L and the described pinion N is substituted therefor,

1. In a paper-reeling device, the combination, with the frame and reels and their pinions and a fixed power-driven pinion for Suecessively revolving said reels, of a suitablydriven chain arranged to overhang the path of each newly-filled reel while it is rising to give place to an empty reel and to engage the pinion of said filled reel and revolve it until the paper is taken by the next lower reel, substantially as described.

2. The combination, witha paper-reelframe and reels carried thereby, of pinions fixed on the shafts of said reels, a suitably-driven stationary pinion for revolving each reel in suecession when the reel-frame is at rest, and other driving-connections adapted to engage the pinion of each newly-filled reel as it is lifted by the turning of the reel-frame to give place to an empty reel, substantially as described.

3. The combination,with a paper-reel frame, of a reel, a rock-shaft, and clamping and cutting teeth carried thereby, a dog secured to one end of the rock-shaft, and a tripping-arm carried by the reel-frame arm and adapted by engagement with said dog to revolve the rock-shaft and cause the teeth to clamp and cut the paper as the reel revolves under it, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands, at Eau Claire, in the county of Eau Claire and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD J. POPE. CHARLES E. POPE. Witnesses:

T. F. FRAWLEY, WM. II. FRAWLEY. 

